Crystal ball skills
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3 Posted 534 days ago by USAnumber1
Very thin light-weight glass orb filled with helium maybe?? It looks like it floats with neutral gravity without his arm being under it....amazing anyway!
4 Posted 534 days ago by BigBang
Based on what he's doing at around 1:15, I don't think this might be a light-wight glass orb filled with helium.
A helium-filled orb would simply drift away.
5 Posted 534 days ago by Tjennosz
Helium?
Dude, this is called Contact Juggling, you cant do that kind of stuff with a lightweigt ball
9 Posted 534 days ago by USAnumber1
BigBang I said with 'neutral gravity' meaning the helium in the orb counteracted the pull of gravity on the orb exactly,which (I believe)would make it seem to float.....but this is just a guess.I have never seen anything like it before.I will see what I can find out about 'contact juggling'.
BombDiggady that was a good one!
10 Posted 534 days ago by chisty
A beautiful, entrancing piece of performance art. He actually kept my attention for the whole vid. It was kind of dreamy to watch. Nice. 
Does anyone remember seeing a short sequence like this (but no where near as cool) in the movie The Labyrinth?
11 Posted 534 days ago by mikeypr
I do chisty,
It was David Bowie, but I agree not as cool as this guy.
Mikey
13 Posted 533 days ago by Erostle5
lol I was just about to say David Bowie in Labyrinth...thank god I'm not alone
14 Posted 533 days ago by nooitaf
the reason you think its floating is because he is making a move where you should expect is to fall (like the hand above) .. actually he is holding the ball with his thumb .. his hand looks realxed but it isnt..
everytime his hand is under the ball it just lays on there .. everytime his hands are above he is holding it with his hands (squeeze grab) .. he knows a lot of ways to hold it and he is really familiar with the gravity behaviour of his ball
also he is using magician tricks to let you think its floating .. like the pulling scene.. you can see him lifting his frontfingers to let the ball roll towards him .. to get it back he just tilts his arm ..
but you think he is pulling because of his other hand doin a pulling move..
and jeah .. i have seen david do it too .. and he sucked compared to that guy. better music too 
16 Posted 533 days ago by matinmiah
theres no trick behind the ball, its solid glass. seen a live street perfornamce once where the guy accidently dropped the ball and it shattered.
this guy is very skillful. pure talent.
17 Posted 532 days ago by iDextrose
it is all slight of hand ladies and gents that is all. He is dam skilled at it as well
18 Posted 531 days ago by thomsi14
he doing it wrong i saw a fish doing it better than him cocksuckerits was a clownfish
19 Posted 517 days ago by sleepy
i was expecting him to drop it any moment. but he didn't, well done.
#16, that's why he did in on the grass not on the street 
20 Posted 483 days ago by gbtidi
Most Contact Juggling balls are perspex or acrylic: it's very hard to create a perfect sphere of solid glass without wrinkles or air bubbles! Acrylic CJ balls are also somewhat hardier and more scratch resistant (important because even a slight blemish on the surface of the ball destroys the entire illusion).
David Bowie faked it in Labyrinth!
Michael Moschen, an early performer often considered the inventor of modern Contact Juggling, stood behind Bowie during filming, slipping his arms through special slits in Bowie's costumes. Because Moschen was performing blind (he couldn't see his hands!), he didn't attempt anything too extravagant. When he's performing by himself, he's truly incredible, and would blow this guy outa the water! However, top marks to this dude for effort, as well as all the practise it must've taken him!
22 Posted 356 days ago by breannasadler
In the movie the Labrynth that wasn't David Bowie.
It was a handmodel.
I had the oppurtunity to play with one of those balls, they are not light and it takes FOREVER to master just one skill.
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1 Posted 534 days ago by yuriythebest
wow! he was able to keep me entertained for 5 mins using but a crystal ball. Amazing!